Pontormo (1494-1557) Ritratto di Maria Salviati con Giulia de’ Medici (Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici) c.1539 Oil on panel, 88 x 71.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Medici, Giulia de’ (c.1535-c.1588) | Salviati, Maria…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 83 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress,…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In this painting Gentile da Fabriano combined several different devotional and biblical subjects: the Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La Bella Nani (Portrait of a Venetian woman) c.1560 Oil on canvas, 119 × 103 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris At the time of its rediscovery at the end of the 19th century, it was thought that this portrait…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1290–1300 Tempera and gold on wood, 27.9 x 21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Assunta Passerini (The Assumption of the Virgin) c.1526–1528 Oil on panel, 379 × 222 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This large altarpiece, almost 4 meters high and 2 meters wide, represents the miracle of the Assumption of the…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1528 Oil on wood, 135.9 x 100.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With this grandly solemn composition, Sarto demonstrated that…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La Sacra Famiglia (The Holy Family) c.1490–1495 Oil on wood, 80.6 x 64.8 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds her clothing out the way as Christ leans towards her to breastfeed, and Saint Joseph dotes upon him.…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Madonna col Bambino in trono e due angeli (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels) c.1440 Tempera and gold on wood, transferred from wood, 122.6 x 62.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Virgin, known as “the…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1435–1440 Tempera on panel, 100 x 161 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Separated by a vertical, column-like partition, a woman to our right kneels opposite a winged angel to our left, who also kneels…